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P ORTABLE REFRIGERATOR. No. 286,375. Patented Oct. 9, 1883.

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PATENT Orrrcn.

JAMES D. BELL, OF FREMONT, NEBRASKA.

PORTABLE REFRIGERATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 286,375, dated October 9, less.

Application filed July 12,1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES D. BELL, a citi-' zen of the United States, resident at Fremont,

in the county of Dodge and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Portable Refrigators; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification. I

Figure-1 of the drawings is a vertical sectional view, and Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view, of my device.

This invention has relation to portable 'refrigerators for shipping perishable and other articles in warm weather; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim ap-. pended.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, (6 designates the outer vessel of the refrigerator, which-is preferably barrelshaped, with the exception that it has the appearance of having had about four inches cut away from the top 'of the barrel, which gives it a larger mouth and renders work of inserting and removing the inner vessel, b, less laborious than if the month were contracted.

An internal ledge or flange, c, is secured a short distance below the rim of the outer vessel, the distance being arbitrary, and should be determined by the amount of ice required to preserve the contents of the inner vessel b. The inner vessel, b, may be either rectangular, square, orcylindrical, as will best suit the article to be shipped. The opening in the flange 0 should of course correspond in shape with p the shape of the inner vessel, 2), which comes incontact with it.

cl designates the cover of the inner vessel, and this vessel and cover should be of any suitabl non-eorrosive material.

Theouter vessel, a, is lined with felt or other suitable'non-conductor of, heat, and its cover 6 should also be lined with similar material, a piece of heavy paper placed between two layers of the felt or other material being preferred for this purpose.

A bar, f, held by cleats g on the inside of the outer vessel, is employed to hold the inner vessel, b. in place after it has received its contents. The space in the outer vessel, a, above the flange c forms the ice-chamber, and the space .below said flange and around the inner vessel forms the water-chamber, which is supplied with icewater from the thawing ice, which continuallytrickles down thelined sides of the outer vessel. WVhen the water-chamber becomes too full, the water may be drawn off or the quantity lessened by withdrawing the plug it, near the ,bottom of the outer vessel, and permitting it to run out.

By a refrigerator of this construction I am enabled to ship butter, poultry, meats, berries, and other perishable articles over a distance lasting through a period of thirty-six hours without replenishing the ioe-cham-bdr, and this period will cover the distance from in nearly any locality. The refrigerators, after reaching the consignee, are emptied and reshipped, so that one refrigerator will-last throughout several seasons.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a portable refrigerator, the combination like, and provided with the internal flange, c, cleats g, and cover e, of the inner vessel, b, of non-corrosive material, and the cover (I, and the securing-barf, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES D. BELL.

Witnesses:

GEO. IV. E. Donsnv,

A. N. AVERY.

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